things I'll hide away

illustration by Yau Hoong Tang 


Deejay, I have so many things to tell you.

beautiful Friday

image from Tumblr
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"the minatour- study" pen & ink 
by Joao ruas

 My Neighbor Totoro poster by Olly Moss

rampart & beverly

BACK IN THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

illustration by Sam Wolfe Connelly

from snowce

This American Life's webisode "Nobody's Family Is Going to Change" shares the story of Dusty and Honey, "two sisters, now in their seventies, who have preserved the same relationship they had as girls...for better or worse." They are not twins, but share identical tastes. They have the same make-up wigs, and eat the same food. "[They] make sure that one never has a larger portion than the other. And one will only have a treat if the other is there to share it with her."

Dear Susie!

This Fast Track  may just be better than a marble run.

 
After a year long run at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, the Dreams Deferred exhibit has come to a close. The piñatas are now home and I'm pretty excited to have all five of these guys back.

images courtesy of camla.org

Illustrated Tern Brooch by Lovely Pigeon

highlights from "Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans "

"...Other bloggers are speaking up, because it’s bringing up all the ways Native Americans have been exploited and misrepresented in mainstream culture. "

“The issue now is not only who gets to represent Native Americans,” Metcalfe says, “but also who gets to profit.”

"To me, it just feels like one more thing non-Natives can take from us—like our land, our moccasins, our headdresses, our beading, our religions, our names, our cultures weren’t enough? " -Adrienne K.

"And Ke$ha and other young scenesters seem to think there’s nothing wrong with donning copies of sacred headgear for partying at summer rock festivals like Coachella."

“There’s the whole economic stratification issue of it,” Metcalfe writes. “These designs are expensive. The new Portland Collection ranges from $48 for a tie to over $700 for a coat. The Opening Ceremony collection was equally, if not more, costly. It almost feels like rubbing salt in the wound, when poverty is rampant in many Native communities, to say ‘Oh, we designed this collection based on your culture, but you can’t even afford it!’”

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from tomgalle on Vimeo.

The iQ Font is the result of collaboration between a professional race car driver and two typographers, Pierre & Damien. It's based on the movements of a car. 

new friend

illustrations by Chris "Elio" Eliopoulos

"The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me" opening at
Nucleus was the best art show I have ever been to.  It made me so so happy.

images via Eyeone and Gallery Nucleus 

illustration by Rose Blake

houses lit up by soda bottles

via No Quedan Blogs

Here is a little SAMPLE OF MARICORMARICAR'S WORK that will be AT "THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS, AND ME"  JIM HENSON TRIBUTE EXHIBITION AT NUCLEUS

I'M PRETTY STOKED ABOUT THIS SHOW. 

THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS, AND ME - A JIM HENSON TRIBUTE EXHIBITION

December 10, 2011 - January 2, 2012
Opening Reception / Dec 10, 7:00PM - 11:00PM

Gallery Nucleus

210 e. main st. alhambra, ca 91801

My godmother looks like Janet.

finding a way to get to you

from Subway Douchery

Fluent Flyers at Unique LA this weekend!!

Check out my friends Fluent Flyers at Unique LA the largest independent design show in the US.
Whoop whoop!




Unique LA
December 3 -4 
California Market Center  
110 East Ninth Street, LA, CA 90079

paper sculpture by The Makerie Studio 

Streamschool (Patakiskola) from Péter Vácz on Vimeo.

gold and black party decor by Oh Happy Day

start at 4:40


best acceptance speech by Nikky Finney via Yem Won

 photo by Manuel Fernández Suarez

"Don't worry about not smiling. My mouth hardly ever smiles, but it does not mean I am not smiling inside my brain."

illustration by Nadia Shireen

Oh Yogur!

Pocoyo Season 1, Ep. 1

Yogur mean mentioned this last year! 

what is it like

I'm missing you and listening to songs that remind me of you. Holy shit, no wonder I was so emo in high school! bloodbrothersonelinedrawingtheweakerthansbelleandsebastiancursivejetstobrazilsavesthedayfugazitakingbacksundayeverytimeidiethegetupkids  made some good, saaaad sad music. Haha shit, we listened to this? I feel like I'm 17 again. So tell me, what are the heavens like?

"Rare Black Rhinos Airlifted to Safety"

via National Geographic

"someday we'll meet beyond the stars and it'll be away from here"

Every now and then I listen to that last voicemail  you left. I think you're one of the only people that can say, "Hey, pick up your phone,"  and still make me want to return your calls.  You always had that special something about you. I love you Deejay.

"Someday we'll meet beyond the limits of who we are and it'll be away from here."

the mileage of light

Light travels 186,282 miles per second.

image by Dennis L. Mammana

Given the vast distances in astronomy, even fast moving objects will not appear to change their appearance in a human lifetime.

"Given the vast distances in astronomy, even fast moving objects will not appear to change their appearance in a human lifetime. Typically. A recent spectacular exception to this, however, is the supersonic jet in the star forming Herbig Haro 47. HH 47 is so close -- and the jets are moving so fast -- that images from the Hubble Space Telescope from 1994 to 2008 have been combined into a time-lapse movie that actually shows a powerful jet expanding. Visible above, jets of plasma extending over 10,000 times the Earth-Sun distance shoot out from a forming star at speeds in excess of 150 kilometers per second. Studying how these jets evolve gives clues not only to how the star in HH 47 is forming, but how stars like our Sun formed billions of years ago. HH 47 is located about 1,500 light years away toward the constellation of Sails of a Ship (Vela). "

by NASA, ESA, P. Hartigan (Rice University), G. Bacon (STScI)

The Move, Paper Animation by Mandy Smith on Vimeo.

by Julissa Mora

by Deejay

by Deejay

"Hold on, to where you're from.
It's where your heart goes, when you're done."

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

Passing Through

etching, drypoint, aquatint on  by Catia Chien